Sunday, March 24, 2013

Äkkigalleria 18 presents Janne Nabb and Maria Teeri an artist couple
based in Helsinki. Janne and Maria are Äkkigalleria’s sixth artists in residency,
and will be in Jyväskylä for our shortest residency yet: seven days. An ingenious
pair of young artists, specialized in an array of mediums and disciplines will
now spend one week outside of their studio to create something new and
unexpected. The artists have been systematically working together for over
three years. Last summer, their work was part of the Mänttä Taideviikot at
Pekkilo and currently they are showing in the Reality Bites exhibition in the
Museum of Contempoary Art Kiasma.

Äkkigalleria 18 will show a new installation of work
by Janne Nabb and Maria Teeri. The work for this installation will be made
exclusively in Jyväskylä for the Äkkigalleria 18 exhibition. Everything will
therefore be made within one week’s time. We hope that this added pressure will
spur the artists into producing work which challenges their routine in
creation.

This residency is in dialogue with last year’s spring residency
by the drawing duet Camille Girard and Paul Brunet, who also produce their work
together. However, because Nabb and Teeri are of Finnish origin, they
will not need to spend time/energy on culture shock and observation in same way
as many of our foreign residency artists. This will allow the artists a more
intense creation period to produce work which focuses on the moment of now.